NEW! Collab w/ Maya Jalbout Hastie, MD, EdD: 'Recognising and managing bias and prejudice in healthcare'🖨️ British Journal of Anaesthesia #MedEd Review of best practices for designing skills-based training curricula to address #bias and #microaggressions . #Upstander ✊responses.👇 authors.elsevier.com/a/1i%7Ebj7K3e2…

Apply - Penn Anesthesia is recruiting in tele-ICU - take a look #PennElert25 apply.interfolio.com/144508

We are #hiring for Cardiothoracic, Critical Care & General Anesthesiology at University of Pennsylvania. Message me if you're interested in joining our team. We are attending SCA 2024 Annual Meeting if you would like to meet! #SCA2024 - via #Whova event app

Love 😍 the advice in this article on use of calming language 🗣️. In #OBAnes practice our patients are typically not sedated, often anxious and in pain….yet we ask them to stay still and calm during their anesthesia care. Take note 🗒️

#OBAnes taking women's pain seriously 🫶⁦SOAP⁩ members to thank for this ⁦ASA®⁩ statement axios.com/2024/04/22/wom…

There are many 'leaky pipelines' in medicine and one that is not often discussed is physician-scientists. Dolores Njoku, President of Association of University Anesthesiologists, describes this phenomenon in anesthesiology in @asamonitor
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Great opportunity for medical students and residents!! #NMA The Student National Medical Association (SNMA) National Hispanic Medical Association National Medical Association Ebony Jade Hilton, MD John W. Patton III, MD, MBA Steven Bradley, MD Dr. KaNisha L. Hall Bola Faloye, MD, FASE, FASA (she/her)

Puerperal uterine inversion should be considered when degree of shock (hypovolaemic/neurogenic/both) is disproportionate to blood loss.

#BJAEd Essential Notes on uterine inversion by Suji Pararajasingam, Dr Tsen and Dr Desire Onwochei

OAA #ObsAnaes

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Read the #BJAEd article by Drs Devadas, Singh and Arvind Palanisamy - they discuss which vasopressor to use in spinal anaesthesia-mediated hypotension.

Which do you routinely use in your practice?

OAA #ObstetricAnaesthesia

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😍I'm At Penn - A BARBIE PARODY | University of Pennsylvania School of Med... youtu.be/NW51syZkQX4?si… via YouTube

Anesthesiologists:

Did you know that usabcd.org offers a free gastric ultrasound course? Great content!

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Should patients discontinue their ARBs and ACE inhibitors prior to surgery?

Check out the editorial from Drs Rajan & Joshi: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors & Angiotensin Receptor Blockers: To Continue or Stop Preoperatively—the Debate Continues

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Thank you to FAER for funding my DEI Curriculum for Perioperative Trainees.

You have free access to manuscript for Unconscious bias workshop here:
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You have free access to Microaggression workshop here: mededportal.org/doi/10.15766/m…
SPA WELI

In celebration of Black Maternal Health week April 11-17, @soaphq Board member, Allison Lee joins OB/GYN Dr. Michelle Owens, a doula and a 'mama' for a balanced conversation about options for labor pain management. Check it out on YouTube: buff.ly/3Q1Pecx #BMHW24

A virtual reality program did not provide significant reductions in average pain scores or opioid consumption compared with 2-dimensional (2D) sham video presentations in patients recovering from hip arthroplasty.

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No causal link between in-utero #acetaminophen exposure & neurodevelopmental disorders in JAMA Network
'Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analyses...'
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Kicking off Black Maternal Health Week! All your questions about #labor pain management answered in this Conversation That Matters with an #OBAnes anesthesiologist, OB/Gyn, mama and a doula - now 📽️on YouTube 👉youtube.com/watch?v=XdPWJq… Dr. Michelle Owens SOAP #BMHW24 #BLM

Goals of management in uterine inversion:
1. Replace uterus to correct anatomical position
2. Manage initial shock
3. Manage PPH
4. Manage pain

#BJAed Essential notes by Suji Pararajasingam, Dr Tsen and Dr Desire Onwochei

#ObsAnaesthesia #Obstetrics OAA

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DEADLINE TOMORROW: APRIL 9. Apply for the 2024 SOAP/Kybele International Outreach Grant! Interested in international outreach projects and research in collaboration with host countries to enhance the practice of obstetric anesthesia? buff.ly/3KkbnAD

Scary 😱 future-massive shortfall anesthesiologist-govt must invest in training-need thousands more residency positions annually. We face growing surgical demand, aging population, & impending retirement of 45% of the workforce. More CRNAs too..